Hair curler



April I8, 1939.

J. J. FELDMAN HAIR CURLER Filed March 23, 1938 INVENTOR: JEROME J. FELPMA N BY Mail/1% ATTORNEY.

Patented Apr. 18, 1939 um'rao STATES PATENT OFFICE 4C1aims.

for its principal object to provide a curler with simple means for locking both of its legs when in curling position, without the use of special locking members.

Another object is to make a curler of this kind with reversible locking means, so that the curler can be locked when in position upon the head of the wearer without the necessity of releasing a in half curl or tightening the curl more than necessary.

A further object is to provide a hair curler which is made of a single piece of stamped ma, terlal and which can be manufactured most ecoll nomically.

With these ends in view, the curler consists of a single piece of material bent in its center where a loop is formed and having two parallel legs, both of which are-provided with locking members m as will be set forth more in detail hereinafter.

Other features and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description and are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a front view of a hair curler embodying a preferred form of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side view of the same;

Fig. 3 is the curler bent to the shape it assumes when in use, the hair which is then held a between the legs of the curler being omitted for sake of cleamess;

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 show similar views of a modified form of curler;

Figs. '7, 8 and 9 show similar views of another 35 modified form of curler; and

ter at where a loop 2| is formed. The legs 22 extend adjacent and normally parallel to each other away from the loop 2|. The free end of each leg is reduced in width at 23 and terminates in a somewhat wider fiat bead 24. The loop 2| 50 has both its side members which are continued in form of the legs cut out to form a socket consisting of a narrow elongated portion 25, somewhat wider' than the reduced part 23 of each leg,

and a wide portion 26, somewhat wider than This invention-relates to hair curlers and has In using the curler, that part of the hair of the wearer which is to be curled is clamped with its ends between spread legs 22. The curler is then turned until it is close to the scalp of the wearer. It is then bent as shown in Fig. 3 and the free ends of legs 22 inserted into the socket of the loop 2|, when it will be seen by inspection of the figure that the inner leg engages the socket of the outer side member of the loop, while the outer leg engages the inner side member of the loop. When inserting the free ends into the sockets, the bead 24 is passed through the wider portion 26 whereupon the tension in its material forces the free end upwardly, so that the bead 24 will be positioned immediately adjacent the narrow portion of the socket, through which projects the reduced part 23 of the leg. This effectively locks both free ends ofthe legs in the loop.

In curlers, as made heretofore, only the outer leg was locked, while the inner leg was held in place only by its natural tension against the hair and the outer leg. It frequently happened that with curlers so made, the inner leg inadvertently was pushed aside while curling or when locking, requiring unravelling of the hair and repeating I the operation. In curlers, such as disclosed, the

. symmetrically-shaped leg ends, .the curler is made reversible, that is, it can be bent in either direction. This makes it easier to close the curler when close to the scalp of the wearer, because only one-half turn is required to bring it into a closable position in which the curler will lie fiat against the scalp without the necessity of either curling the hair too tight or releasing one-half of a turn and curling it too loose.

In Figs. 4, 5 and 6 is shown a curler which has a modified form of locking means.

This curler is bent in its center at 21 to form I a loop 28. Legs 29 extend away from the loop 28 and have their free ends slotted at 30 for a narrow socket 3| and a wider circularly-shaped continuation 32 terminating in two small hooklike members 33. The sides of the loop 28 are taperingly cut down at 34 to a width less than I that of socket 3|.

are straddling the loop 23, so that the hook-like members 33 engage the outer wider sides of the loop immediately adjacent its narrow portion 34, as shown in Fig. 6.

In Figs. 7, 8 and 9, another modification of curler is shown. This curler has a center loop 35 and two legs 38 extending therefrom, one of which is somewhat shorter than the other. Each free end is slotted at 31 for a narrow socket 38 and a wider circularly-shaped continuation 39 terminating in two small hook-like members 40. That side of the loop 35 of which the shorter of the legs 36 is an extension is taperingly reduced in width at 4| to less than the width of socket 33.

When in use, with the hair in place, the curler is bent with its shorter leg inwardly. Then, in locking the free ends of legs 36, due to the thickness of the hair, both ends will be in approximately the same plane, and they can be locked by slipping the members 40 under the wider part of the loop 35, essentially the same as the curler described in Figs. 4, 5 and 6.

The curler shown in Figs. 10, 11 and 12 con- Sists of a central loop 42, and two legs 43 and 44 extending therefrom substantially parallel to each other and of the same length. One of the legs 43 is slotted at its end at 44 to form a socket 45 and a wider circularly-shaped continuation 46 terminating in two small hook-like members 41. That side of the loop 42 from which the leg 43 extends is taperlngly reduced in width at 48 to less than the width of socket 45. The other leg 44 has an end with tapered sides 49 terminating in a bead 50, the bead being bent upwardly to project through the circularlyshaped portion 46 of leg 43.

When applying the curler with hair clamped between it and for locking, the legs are bent inwardly as shown in Fig. 12. The free end of inner leg 43 engages the outer sides of the loop 42 the same as described in Figs. 7, 8 and 9. While in this position, the up-turned bead 50 slips over the narrow socket 45 in which the narrow neck below bead 50 rides, and so effectively locks the leg 44 onto the leg 43.

In all forms of curlers described, both legs are locked when the curler is in bent position, making the application particularly safe and eliminating discomfort to the wearer due to the curler springing open by side slipping of one of its legs. The curlers are readily applied and easily locked. They may be made reversible with resulting advantages.

While I have shown and described certain preferred embodiments of the invention, it is obvious that numerous other changes in the form, proportions and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principles or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

What I claim as new, is:

1. A hair curler made of a strip of flexible material folded to form a small loop and two legs extending therefrom, the said legs being adapted to clamp hair between them for curling and to be bent together into a large loop, and means in the said small loop and coacting with both the free ends of the said legs, when bent, to hold both legs in locked engagement with respect to each other.

2. A hair curler made of a strip of flexible material, folded to form a small loop and two legs extending therefrom, the said legs being adapted to clamp hair between them for curling and to be bent together into a large loop, and means in the said small loop to fixedly engage the free end .of the inner leg of the large loop, and means at the free end of the outer leg of the large loop to engage the said inner leg to hold both legs, when bent, in locked relation with respect to each other.

3. A hair curler made of a strip of flexible material folded in its center to form a small loop and two legs of equal length, the said legs being adapted to clamp hair between them for curling and to be bent together into a large loop, and means at both halves of the said small loop and coacting with the free ends of the said legs, when bent, to hold both legs in locked engagement with respect to each other, the said free ends and both halves of the said small loop, respectively, being shaped symmetrically.

4. A hair curler made of a strip of flexible material folded to form a small loop and two legs of different length extending therefrom, the said legs being adapted to clamp hair between them for curling and to be bent together into a large loop, the longer leg being at the outside of the said large loop, and means in the said small loop and coacting with both the free ends of the said legs, when bent, to hold both legs in locked engagement with respect to each other.

JEROME J. FELDMAN'. 

